The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-05
GAVE HERSELF AWAY.
A Girl in Mans Garments and How
She was Discovered.

gentlemen showing stains OF hurried
travel registered at the Gerald House at
Harrison yesterday and ordered dinner.
They registered as "E. K. Decks and II.
D. Gath, Oxford, o." and "John
Williams, South Bend, Ind" So far as
the eyes of masculinity with its vision
impaired with notes of others and
beams of its own were concerned, the
party was all right, and it required the
keener vision of the gentle sex to deter
mine that things were not as they
seemed. When dinner was announced
the party of three entered the dining
room, and in doing so ran the gauntlet
of party of ladies. So far everything
seemed all right, but when the table was
reached pair OF keen eyes noted an
incongruity.
The man registered as John Williams
approached the table som ewhat in the
rear of his companions, and seemed to
wait to have his chair arranged. That
done, he approached the chair walking
sideways, and with a backward sweep of
his hand in the vicinity of his coat tails
as though to remove some hidden OBJ
Struction, gracefully lowered himself
into the chair as though he was afraid
of breaking something. all this accom-
plished he crossed his hands over his
ample nantaloons, looked about and
blushed.
This was All eye opener, and other
actions seemed to confirm the suspicion
already born. Mr.. Williams confined
himself to iced tea, seemed to be in his
own way and altogether in an uncom-
Portable position in contradiotinction to
his cOEl panions, who were travelling the
bill of fare at rate not born of dyspep-
sia or an evil conscience. Itwas freely
whispered among the ladies that what
seemed to be a nice looking man with
such q pretty complexion was lady in
q mans clothes.
The secret was given to several gentle
men; whose observations, confined to a
range above the table cloth, confirmed
the opinion, aud the party became a
target toward which all eyes were
conferred. The ladies were openly Of
the opinion that those horrid men had
kidnapped that nice-looking girl and
were conveying her away for base
designs. Wis ons of hot water and other
articles of feminine warfare darted
through their minds as they Withdrew
for counsel and it was noted that they
strange to say, had not before noticed
the degree Of toughness in the appear
ance of the captors clad in busters as
long as pillow cases.
The girl, too, wore a look of hopeless
ness and embarrassed resignation as she
glanced occasionally toward the ladies
observing her every movement. Dinner
over, the men escorted John Williams"
III of than iIcn1ouTn~ n
revolver by changing it to another
pocket. That was the climax. The
rumor few that an innocent young lady
was in trouble at the Gerard House, and
in an incredibly short time quite crowd
was there bent on an investigation. The
men were approached, and their ex-
planat.on put different light on affairs.
Mr.. Decks is the editor OF the Oxford
NeiuS, Oxfor }, o. Mr.. Gath is detec =
tive, while John Williams really was
Miss Mary Fowler, whose escapade in
going away from Oxford with a suit of
mans clothes with nobody but herself
in it, Will be recalled by readers of the
press.
The girl is but Is years old she
was sent by the authorities of l. &c
Female Reformatory, st Indiana
to work in the family of Walter Frs
Oxford. Her WORK was not satiStaCtol
and she was about to be returned to the
jnstitu ton. She could not hear the life
there. To her the wells were but
prison, and the marion but warden.
Accordingly she cut a luxuriant growth
of brown hair close 10 her head, and
borrowing a suit of clothes without Mr..
Fry's knowledge, started into the world
to make her living as a man. This Was
last Friday. She wandered through
several little towns with big names like
NiIlville, R lily, London. st, Charles,
Q heaua, etc.
Failing to find work, she applied as
harvest hand at the home OF Farmer J.
B. Donogb, Just above Harrison, where
she was caughtyesterday. She travelled
as John W llians, and her sex was. not
discovered. She was dressed in panta-
loon of ash;onable woollen checked
stuff. a nice cutawsy coat, a vest to
match, good substantial shoes and
neat, but common straw hat. Her hair
was chopped close. and a cowlick. indi-
eating some mental twist. helped to dis
guise her personality. The Intention of
her csptors was TO take her through
town without disclosing her identity,
and they would have been successful
had the g ri not forgotten her part when
she attempted to take chair at the
dinner table. She was taken to Oxford
last eGening.-Cincinnati TimeS-StGr.